Archaeology Brown Bag Lecture Series

This presentation explores visual genealogies and topographies of race in the art of Venice in the fourteenth century - including San Marco and the Doge's Palace during the reign of doge Andrea Dandolo, and manuscripts of a crusading treatise by Marin Sanuto the Elder and the world history of Fra Paolino Veneta. This was a crucial moment in which Venice emerged as a colonial power, and its merchants expanded its trading networks as far as China, while also playing a central role in the slave...